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[quote=Anonymous]I could not finish Life after Life by Kate Atkinson.  I got stuck at the reliving of the Spanish Flu.  It just became so repetitive.

I generally do not reread - ther are so many books to READ there's little time for rereading.

But just in the past few months I realized I was really enjoying a detective/mystery series (Everyone in my Family has killed someone is the first book) and yet I had a nagging sense I was missing something.  So I went back and reread them all and enjoyed them (for book 2 I had genuinely forgotten who the murderer was!).  They are just sort of convoluted situations with a large cast of side characters.

Then my book club chose North Woods by Daniel Mason which I had read a year before and LOVED.  I wasn't going to reread, but then someone else who had already read it said something like I just was blown awasy by the next to last chapter, which I didn't remember at all so I did a rereading and picked up so much more from it the second time around.

This is telling me I'm getting older and things aren't pentrating as much as they used to?  Is this my signs of aging?  (I"m 55 and read a lot - 80-100 books a year.  i chose to believe I just have too much crammed in).

I SO enjoyed rereading classics when my kids were young Charlotte's Web is amazing.  The Narnia books.  The Hobbit (starting about age 11 I reread The Hobbit every few years into my 20s).

I read and just sort of slogged through the Lord of the rings as a young teenager, so I'm thinknig of rereading them.

I've also been casually picking up Agatha Christie books - some I've read before and some I haven't - and enjoying them whether I recognize/remember them or not.  
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